In mid -May 2024, the Russian Zvezda television channel said that during the protest in Georgia, the demonstrators placed posters on the columns of the parliament with the image of the leader of Ukrainian nationalists. We decided to check if this is so.
On May 14, the Zvezda correspondent Katerina Radomskaya, during the inclusion from Tbilisi, showed the consequences of the protest. “That's what the building of the parliament has turned into the days of protest: the walls are expanded with slogans, the photos of Stepan Bandera are glued.” Now there is no this plot on the channel’s website, but the excerpt from it was dispersed Telegram channels And Facebook On the same day.
The first protests related to the plans of the ruling party "Georgian Dream" to adopt a law on "foreign agents" took place in Georgia in 2023. Then, due to street demonstrations, the bill was Referredbut in April 2024, deputies began consideration of an almost identical document - and May 14 Accepted It, despite the thousands of rallies. The shares continued and after that. The President of the country Salome Zurabishvili in the opposition to the Georgian Dream I applied A veto bill, but the ruling party is likely to overcome it.
Protest shares were covered by Zvezda TV channel, owned by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. One of the plots was dedicated to the opponents of the Law on “foreign agents”. In the video, the correspondent shows a hand to the walls of the parliament: there are really clearly visible posters with a portrait on a pale blue background.
In the video, these posters are too far to consider the details and read the signature under the portrait. But at the high -quality photographs taken from the same point on the same day on the same day, which the journalist Valery Fayzullina shared with the “tested”, the face of the person’s depicted is much better.
The same poster was published on May 1 in Facebook Tamara Chergoleishvili, member of the opposition party "European Georgia". The person depicted on the poster does not at all look like the leader of Ukrainian nationalists Stepan Bandera.
In fact, this is a Georgian poet-symbolist Titian Tabidze. In the original photo, he stands next to another Georgian writer, Valerian Gapondashvili. On the dedicated Tabidze site indicatedthat the picture was taken in 1916.
For Georgians Titian Tabidze - One of the main symbols of political repression. In 1937, when the Tbilisi poetic community was defeated, Tabidze was arrested and shot. Therefore, the portrait of the poet, sentenced to death, allegedly for cooperation with foreign intelligence, is a completely understandable allusion to the opponents of the Law on “Foreign Agents”.
It is even more difficult to see images of Bandera on other posters. On one of them -Portrait of Catholicos-Patriarch Ambrose (1861–1927), also affected by Soviet repressions.
And on the other - caricature, on which the Pig's image depicts the chairman of the Georgian Dream party and, until January 2024, the country's Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili.
Thus, posters from the plot of the Russian television channel have nothing to do with Bandera. The correspondent of the "Stars" was either mistaken or deliberately misled the audience.
Photo on the cover: Screenshot "Checked"
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